BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutations in Ethnic Lebanese Arab Women With High Hereditary Risk Breast Cancer

Nagi S. El Saghir; Nathalie K. Zgheib; Hussein Assi; Katia Khoury; Yannick Bidet; Sara Jaber; Raghid Charara; Rania Farhat; Firas Kreidieh; Stephanie Decousus; P. Romero; Georges Nemer; Ziad Salem; Ali Shamseddine; Arafat Tfayli; Jaber Abbas; Faek R. Jamali; Muhieddine Seoud; Deborah K. Armstrong; Yves–Jean Bignon; Nancy Uhrhammer

doi:10.1634/theoncologist.2014-0364

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Prevalence of deleterious BRCA mutations is lower than expected and does not support the hypothesis that BRCA mutations alone cause the observed high percentage of breast cancer in young women of Lebanese and Arab descent. Studies to search for other genetic mutations are recommended.

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BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutations in Ethnic Lebanese Arab Women With High Hereditary Risk Breast Cancer

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